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Smart Reading. Summary: Peace Is Every Step. The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life. Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Live Here and Now
90 Thousand Moments of Joy
Everyday Meditation
Aimlessness
How to Cope with One's Feelings
Amputate or focus on a cure?
Five Steps of Transformation
Seeds of Love and Hate
The World in and Around Us All
All is One
The Basis of Active Love
Top 10 Ten Take-aways
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Every day, when we open our eyes after our slumber, we receive the gift of 1,440 minutes of a new day. Almost 90,000 brand new moments, each of which can become a spark of joy. You do not have to walk or travel far to feel joy. Right now, you can feel it by breathing deeply, tasting food, absorbing sunlight, walking on soft ground, or listening to birds singing outside your window. The key is to understand that THIS moment is all you have, it is your only reality, and it contains everything you need to live.
However, we are much better at preparing for life than living it. We study at university, expecting a successful career, only to become disappointed in it. We save money, and then come to understand that money in the bank did not bring happiness. We long for summer in winter, and for the weekend on Monday. But while we are this waiting stage, we do not live.
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1. A smile is your first chance for joy. When smiling at something, we realize and acknowledge the joy of the world available to us at this moment. Anything can be a reason for a smile: kind words, a delicious breakfast, or a ray of sunshine pouring through the window. Have you noticed that you smile too rarely? Create a smile reminder for yourself and arrange it so that you see the reminder as soon as you wake up. It can be a simple drawing or a piece of paper with some kind words. When you open your eyes and see the reminder, you will immediately remember the first reason for joy. And after a while, smiling will become a habit.
2. Breathing is your second chance for joy. It is the source of life to which we turn almost every moment. Every day we inhale and exhale 20 thousand times, our lungs pass 12,500 liters of air through their cavities, a process that goes absolutely unnoticed. Meanwhile, we cannot hold out without air for a couple of minutes. Once we fall ill even with a slight cold, we immediately feel how much we need breathing. Why wait for an illness if you can feel the joy of breathing right now?
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